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A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock, fol. -

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.86.

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The machine reads it as

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  2. ent
  3. V. a
  4. a L.n
  5. Donot prelume to address thele Papers to
  6. rou as a Champion in vour Caule, but 25
  7. an Ofender, to make the best Avolney
  8. Jcan for a Bold unlicenc d Ondertakins; thac
  9. Excellence oF the ElTar ot Fluman Inderstandins
  10. rrhich care me Courase in encountrins a Ca.
  11. viller asainst it, Arikces me with Chame and
  12. Aire, Wrhon I think ot comine betore vou; like
  13. a Rath Lover, that tiehis in Detence oF a L.a-
  14. dys Honour, the julter his Cause is, the more
  15. Reaton hehas to tear her Relentment, For not
  16. leavins it to alsert it Celt by its oun Fvidence,
  17. and the more it secures him ot Succels asainst
  18. his Adverlary, ihe lels Pretence he has to her
  19. Forsirenels: But, Sir, The FPar oE Duman
  20. Onderstandins is a Publick Concern, which everi
  21. one has a Righe and Interest to détend; It came
  22. t00 late into the World to be receir d without.
  23. Opposition, as it mishe have been in tho first
  24. ASes OE Philosophy, betore Mens Heads vere
  25. prepossest rith inasinary science; at least, vo
  26. doubt, if (0 Porfeet a Work con d hare Been pro-
  27. ducd s0 Farly, it rou d have prevented a sreat
  28. deal oF that unintellisible Parson, and vain Prc-
  29. tence to Knomledse ot thines out ot the reachiof
  30. Tluman Vnderstandins, Which matre a ereat part
  31. oF the School. Learnins, and dituse the Mind t0
  32. Plain andsolid Truth.
  33. ut

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A Defence Of The Essay Of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock, fol. - . Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797937889:0007?run=74